On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:16:35PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 11/20/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the last installfest, I bugged out before using Carl's Partition > > Magic, which would have made this request moot. But here goes: > > > > Work "gave" me a windoze laptop so's I can work from home (apparently 40 > > hours ain't enough ;). I want to dual boot the sucker so I can get some > > real work done. > > > > No sweat except I'm told fips is passe. What do we use today to > > repartition a windoze box nondestructively? > > I think that fips is not only passe' but also not working on NTFS. > There will be a Bookstore InstallFest on December 03, which is not > very many days in the future. I have two more copies of the latest > bootable CD of Partition Magic here at home. > I could email you an image, but it's some 63MB and that seems > excessive even in these days of large memories and fast networks. > > I have tried QtPartEd (not sure of the mixed capitals) from Knoppix, > and don't quite trust it. Other people's experience may differ. >
This is what I'll do. Thanks to Barry and others for the suggestion of QtPartEd. This being a work machine, I want to be extra conservative so I can stay under the radar. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
